Please, do NOT force your toddler to hold the pencil the way a school child does, with 3 fingers on the pencil â you may do more harm than good. It is very hard to âunlearnâ a poor pencil grip later in life! Each stage of holding a pencil or crayon is dependent on how âsteadyâ the shoulder and arm muscles are.
In the equation of a straight line (when the equation is written as  y = mx + b ), the slope is the number  m  that is multiplied on the x, and  b  is the y-intercept, where the line crosses the y-axis.
noun. The definition of a gradient is a rate of an incline. An example of a gradient is the rate at which a mountain gets steeper.plural gradients). 1  A slope or incline. 2  A rate of inclination or declination of a slope. ( 3 calculus) Of a function y = f (x) or the graph of such a function, the rate of change of y with respect to x, that is, the amount by which y changes for a certain (often unit) change in x.